1940 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 7 – Effie Crockett, composer of "Rock-a-Bye Baby", 82
  • January 17 – Carl Boberg, hymn-writer, 80
  • February 2 – Nikolay Kedrov, Sr., composer, 68
  • February 17 – Gus Elen, music hall singer, 77
  • February 28 – Arnold Dolmetsch, musical instrument maker, 82
  • March 18 – Lola Beeth, operatic soprano, 78
  • April 9 – Rosa Newmarch, music writer, 82
  • April 18 – Florrie Forde, Australian-born English music hall singer, 64
  • April 28 – Luisa Tetrazzini, soprano, 68
  • May 23 – Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov, musicologist, 61
  • May 29 – Mathilda Grabow, operatic soprano, 88
  • June 8 – Frederick Converse, composer, 69
  • June 19 – Albert Reiss, operatic tenor, 70
  • June 20
    • Jehan Alain, organist and composer, 29 (killed in action)
    • Emma Nevada, operatic soprano, 81
  • July 10 – Sir Donald Francis Tovey, musicologist and composer, 64
  • August 8
    • Alessandro Bonci, operatic tenor, 70
    • Johnny Dodds, jazz musician, 48 (heart attack)
  • August 10 – Alessandro Bonci, lyric tenor, 70
  • August 21 – Paul Juon, composer and teacher, 68
  • August 29 – Arthur De Greef, pianist and composer, 77
  • September 2 – Giulio Gatti-Casazza, director of the Metropolitan Opera, 71
  • September 30 – Walter Kollo, operetta composer, 62
  • October 5 – Silvestre Revueltas, composer, 40 (pneumonia)
  • November 6 – Ivar F. Andresen, operatic bass, 44
  • November 12 – Alejandro García Caturla, composer
  • November 22 – Jorge Bravo de Rueda, pianist and composer
  • November 23 – Billy Jones, US singer
  • December 3 – Walborg Lagerwall, Swedish violinist, 89
  • December 5 – Jan Kubelik, violinist, 60
  • December 11 - J. Harold Murray, baritone, 49 (nephritis)
  • December 15 – Blanche Marchesi, mezzo-soprano and voice teacher, 77
  • December 16 – William Wallace, composer, 80
  • December 21 – Hal Kemp, jazz musician and bandleader, 36 (complications following car accident)
  • December 24 – Billy Hill, songwriter
  • date unknown
    • Nonna Otescu, composer (born 1888)
    • Marguerite Ugalde, operatic mezzo-soprano (born 1862)

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